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Incentivizing Team Leaders : A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023

In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the...

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Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Options and the Fallacies of Economic Theory

Hatgioannides, John - 2012

In this paper we aim to trace the roots of the ongoing economic mayhem and to unmask the chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional...

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Financial Liberalization and Democracy : The Role of Reform Reversals

Campos, Nauro F. - 2009

The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the … possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and … financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a U-shaped relationship across countries, over time as well as in a panel …

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Creativity over Time and Space

Serafinelli, Michel - 2019

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...

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Neoliberalization and the Changing Roles of Stakeholders in State-Led Shantytown Redevelopment in Shenyang City, China

Li, Xin - 2016

Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and society in urban restructuring. Since 2008, the central state has initiated the Shantytown Redevelopment Projects (SRPs) to improve the living conditions of low-income residents....

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Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Kalb, Guyonne R.J. - 2012

Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes the gap in labour market attachment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in...

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Constitutions and Economic Development : Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall - 2012

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....

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Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians

Breunig, Robert V. - 2017

We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models for the determinants of financial stress for Indigenous and non-Indigenous households and show the importance of separately considering Indigenous disadvantage. We use these...

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians

Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020

Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers … on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered …

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Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Button, Patrick - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and...

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